flying!

Big things happened since the last blog. We started flying and we moved to an other house.

We started flying 2 weeks ago, or actually, most of us did. Everyone but me. The instructor assignment was not very well planned and with the instructors shortage here it took me a week after the first flying day to get airborne. But now I finally started the flying and really it's great.

The first flight I got was last Monday. There were actually 2 flights booked. 1 in the morning and the other in the afternoon. But shit happened even before we got airborne. We got our plane U/S. And that was seriously not funny, since I got my second flight that in the same plane. What happened? After starting the engine, we discovered that the carbonmonooxide detector was al turned black, which means that there was carbonmonooxide detected. An absolute no-go :o. And even more shit was, at that time, 5 of the 7 Grob115's (the type we fly in this module) were U/S because of a faulty nosegear. And we signed the 6th U/S :'). But as shit happens fortune came back and the "carbonmonooxide-problem" was solved and I got my afternoon flight :) Great to fly again. It has been a while since my last flight, so I seriously enjoyed the flying. We flew up to the training area, which is a designated area for training aircraft to fly and did some airwork in Basis Aircraft Control (BAC).

Wednesday I went up 2 times. First flight in the morning again, not to early though, 900, which is great, since you can get some more rest. Some others had to get up at 500 or something. Since my instructor did the walk-around (preflight inspection of the aircraft) with me on the first flight I was suppose to do it now al by my own. Great, the real stuff. We did some more BAC and came back. The second flight was a bit shorter than usual, since we got met some delay and therefore speeded it al up a little bit. I did the Take Off, which was agreat thing to do, transited to the training area, did some airwork again and as we finished the things in the syllabus, we flew back and reduced the delay for the flight after us. Coming Tuesday 2 more flights :)

I used to live with 2 other guys from my course(CP28), now we moved to an other house with 2 guys from the government flying service. The place we got now is far more better then the place I used to live, although it's just 100m away or something :') Got some photo's of our new house.

Still looking for a reasonable car here btw, lose a lot of flexiblity without a car and that sucks.

Amending Jeppesen sucks ass

Sunset View from my room New House
View from my room
My room
Relatively cheap petrol 0.89euros :O
The Be-76 Duchess and me (will never fly this thing here though, Duchess is to be phased for the Diamond Twinstar tupperware thingy)

The Grob115, the German tupperware thingy we fly up to our General Flying Progress Test (GFPT), after that we gonna switch to the Socata TB10. (French crap ;) )

Laats